… and land. It had come from the testing of a nuclear weapon. This scene was not a singular … event for the region. For over 12 years nuclear testing was carried out in the … Cross Society. This is the reality of nuclear weapons, and nuclear testing. Today is the …
… ratifies the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons The ICRC reminded governments in the … ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The regional delegation …
… of Justice, Legality of the Use by a State of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflict, Advisory Opinion, …
… norms. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is another example of multilateralism … all the way to its goal: a world without nuclear weapons. I raise these examples to …
… impacts for civilians on earth. The use of weapons in outer space – be it through kinetic … the placement in orbit of objects carrying nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass … of Justice, Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 8 July …
… or operations involving the use of explosive weapons. This is powerfully captured in the … Economic Co-operation and Development) NEA (Nuclear Energy Agency). 2018. Towards an … and Response: Lessons Learnt from Non-nuclear Events. NEA No. 7308. …
… resources: Factsheets on different kinds of weapons Main issues for discussion - The basic … Protocol I - Prohibited or restricted use of weapons o Explosive bullets, dumdum bullets, … bacteriological and biological weapons, and nuclear weapons o New means and methods, …
… ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in August 2020, becoming one of …
… force of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) As delivered by ICRC President … have been waiting for. From this day onwards, nuclear weapons — some of the most terrifying …
… War I so horrified the world that chemical weapons were banned only seven years after the … and inhumane weapon was unleashed. Nuclear blasts decimated two Japanese cities … that, like poison gas after World War I, nuclear weapons too must be banned outright. …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
